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| Peace trap laid for Chandrika |
| Govt asks President to
take over talks with rebels |
| The Sri Lankan government, in a power struggle with the island’s President, said today it may ask her to take over a peace process with Tamil rebels if she does not reverse a decision to sack three ministers.
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| Iraq vow on date with power |
| Iraq’s foreign minister promised today to keep to a US timetable towards sovereign government as another American soldier’s death added to the pressure for a handover of powe
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| Too close for Saudi royal comfort |
| Saudi interior minister Prince Nayef and some other Saudi royals have private homes near the housing compound ripped apart by suspected al Qaida suicide bombers in Riyadh tod
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| Arafat wins in cabinet deal |
| Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie today announced a deal to form a new government that would keep security powers key to a US-backed peace plan under President Yasser Ar
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| President Chandrika Kumaratunga |
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